The Ukrainian Employers' Federation (FEU) has indicated that all Ukrainian imports, including but not limited to steel products, destined for Russia are being held up at Russian customs without explanation, while it has added that Russia ...
Tags: Trade War
August 15, marks an important milestone in trade relations between Canada and Colombia with the celebration of the second anniversary of free trade between the two nations. Exports from Colombia to Canada have grown by 19.5% during that ...
Four years after its implementation, the Earned Import Allowance Program (EIAP) is not providing enough incentives to help boost the competitiveness of Dominican apparel exports in the U.S. market, as intended, reports the U.S. ...
Tags: Apparel Exports
Cadbury India, a unit of US-based snacks company Mondelez International, plans to establish a new chocolate manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh, India, with an initial investment of more than INR10bn ($163m). The new plant will be ...
The Government of Nepal would soon launch programmes for the support of the garment sector, Finance Minister Shanker Prasad Koirala has said. Addressing the 22nd Annual General Meeting of Garment Association-Nepal (GAN), Mr. Koirala ...
Tags: Nepal Govt, Garment Sector
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the US Department of Transportation Wednesday released May North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) freight numbers showing that trucks carried 60.8 percent of the $98.6 billion of freight ...
Textile industry of Nicaragua may lose tariff preferences in the US, which are up for renewal in 2014, as s senior US official has said that such an extension of tariff preferences is not necessary. The textile industry of Nicaragua ...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has initiated the process to set up a polypropylene and polyethylene plant in the Koko Free Trade Zone (FTZ) by appointing a team for preliminary site inspection. This was disclosed by the Delta state ...
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Greensboro, N.C.-based textured yarn manufacturer Unifi Inc. and Kingstree, S.C.-based Palmetto Synthetics LLC -- a manufacturer of polyester, nylon, and other specialty man-made staple fibers -- have signed a manufacturing and distribution ...
Tags: Textile
China's move to slap retaliatory antidumping tariffs on solar polysilicon imported from the US and South Korea will cause only a slight increase in domestic pricing for the material, according to IHS. The Ministry of Commerce in China ...
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International buyers from countries having a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia, accounted for business expectations worth US$ 73.9 million at Colombiamoda 2013. The amount corresponds to 76 percent of the total US$ 97 million ...
In March 2013 the European Union and Japan began negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement. In the framework of a study entitled: "Economic effects of a free trade agreement between Japan and the EU" researchers from the Ifo ...
The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) has established a special ‘China Focus Cell’ to enhance bilateral trade relations, following the recent visit of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to China. The ...
Tags: China Focus Cell, Trade Relations
The World Apparel Fibre Consumption Survey recently completed by the Economic and Social Development Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (EST/FAO) and the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) ...
Tags: Apparel Fibre, Textile
Mexico's increasing competitiveness is expected to be a boon to those companies, including American companies that design the original product and their contract manufacturers – the companies that manufacture the American ...
Tags: Textile Production, Textile